Hi All
I'm having some issue with my Tivo, all out of no where! My wife called me saying that the DVR is stuck on the Welcome Starting up... screen, and nothing seems to be operational on the remote. I can't say I've experienced this problem before, but I told her to disconnect it for some time, but the problem persist.

Is there a reset but to get it out this screen or something I can do as I am stump.

Thank you in advance.

Djoel

I had this exact problem about a year ago with my Premiere. I ordered a new hard drive from WeakKnees and fixed the issue. No need to reformat their drive, just swap the drives. It was an easy process.

Hi All
I'm having some issue with my Tivo, all out of no where! My wife called me saying that the DVR is stuck on the Welcome Starting up... screen, and nothing seems to be operational on the remote. I can't say I've experienced this problem before, but I told her to disconnect it for some time, but the problem persist.

Is there a reset but to get it out this screen or something I can do as I am stump.

Thank you in advance.

Djoel

if you havent done anything with it yet, i would use spinrite on it. buy spinrite (https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm), take out the drive, connect it to a pc, boot spinrite and run it at level 2. i bet you it will fix it.

I had this exact problem about a year ago with my Premiere. I ordered a new hard drive from WeakKnees and fixed the issue. No need to reformat their drive, just swap the drives. It was an easy process.

I think I'll be going with this option! Hopefully, it works out well and it's not something crazy other than the HHD.

if you havent done anything with it yet, i would use spinrite on it. buy spinrite (https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm), take out the drive, connect it to a pc, boot spinrite and run it at level 2. i bet you it will fix it.

WOE, I'm listening to the podcast now...Did know about this until now, thanks.

Am I the only one with 4 Premieres with Lifetime having Guides that have not successfully updated since 9/12/16? They connect, negotiate, prepare, set clock, get account data, EVERYTHING except Guide Data. Thank you MacroVision!

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Am I the only one with 4 Premieres with Lifetime having Guides that have not successfully updated since 9/12/16? They connect, negotiate, prepare, set clock, get account data, EVERYTHING except Guide Data. Thank you MacroVision!

You may not be the ONLY one, but I have guide (Rovi) until 9/28.

I would watch a network connection. There have been reported problems in that area. http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...d.php?t=543391 I only apply power to my Premiere on weekends, and today it downloaded the guide to match my Roamio boxes. I haven't participated in the threads, but I would start by a reboot of the router. I have seen network connections fail, but it's been a while. Lack of data also means Indexing doesn't happen also.

I have changed the zipcode on Premiere. My headend isn't on the list of providers, so I chose the zipcode of my cable office. Also, zap2it is dead to us. Now a second opinion is from tvguide.com, or if you're desperate use tv.com.

From your post, it's more likely your zipcode is the issue. That's a hard one, since Rovi isn't very good with many zipcodes. Usually the issue is proper lineup but listings are all TBA. Anything I can do to help, just ask. My Premiere is configured for both OTA and cable. It doesn't have a cable card, so I just use it for storage and playing with.

Thanks Joe. It seems that this issue at my house was conveniently timed to coincide with the double hernia surgery I had on Wednesday. After a couple of days doing not much of anything except watching TV. the Guides disappeared on all four TiVo's. History shows the last successful download was 9/12 on each of them. Forcing a manual connection, they will prepare, negotiate, update clock, get account status, slice, dice, and julienne... everything except get the Guide listings. One time I got it to "say" it was successful, but in reality it only actually downloaded a few listings for a few channels.

My router (as well as two of the TiVo's) are upstairs. off-limits for me right now. I rebooted the router from a computer downstairs. I powered down both downstairs TiVo's to reset them. Still nothing. This only confirms what I've already known for years... anything that depends on the internet to function is inherently undependable. And for any doubters... ALL of my TiVo's are hardwired.

Zipcode is 70433... but I dunno what a "GS" is . . .

To anyone interested in a Google Chromebox or Chromebook..

Be aware that these boxes run a variant of Linux and DO NOT support HDCP!!!

This means no support for HD on most streaming services. I wish I would have known this beforehand....

Thanks Joe. It seems that this issue at my house was conveniently timed to coincide with the double hernia surgery I had on Wednesday. After a couple of days doing not much of anything except watching TV. the Guides disappeared on all four TiVo's. History shows the last successful download was 9/12 on each of them. Forcing a manual connection, they will prepare, negotiate, update clock, get account status, slice, dice, and julienne... everything except get the Guide listings. One time I got it to "say" it was successful, but in reality it only actually downloaded a few listings for a few channels.

My router (as well as two of the TiVo's) are upstairs. off-limits for me right now. I rebooted the router from a computer downstairs. I powered down both downstairs TiVo's to reset them. Still nothing. This only confirms what I've already known for years... anything that depends on the internet to function is inherently undependable. And for any doubters... ALL of my TiVo's are hardwired.

Zipcode is 70433... but I dunno what a "GS" is . . .

You can reboot a Tivo from the system menu. Good luck. The rovi data is the root cause.

Thanks Joe. It seems that this issue at my house was conveniently timed to coincide with the double hernia surgery I had on Wednesday. After a couple of days doing not much of anything except watching TV. the Guides disappeared on all four TiVo's. History shows the last successful download was 9/12 on each of them. Forcing a manual connection, they will prepare, negotiate, update clock, get account status, slice, dice, and julienne... everything except get the Guide listings. One time I got it to "say" it was successful, but in reality it only actually downloaded a few listings for a few channels.

My router (as well as two of the TiVo's) are upstairs. off-limits for me right now. I rebooted the router from a computer downstairs. I powered down both downstairs TiVo's to reset them. Still nothing. This only confirms what I've already known for years... anything that depends on the internet to function is inherently undependable. And for any doubters... ALL of my TiVo's are hardwired.

Zipcode is 70433... but I dunno what a "GS" is . . .

GS is Guided Setup. I wouldn't do that right now. I used your zipcode on tvguide.com yesterday and your OTA listings are quite small but seem ok. There seem to be many more OTA channels on tv.com.

One other way to force a complete guide rebuild is to perform a Clear Guide and To Do List. Nothing is lost, and it has two phases. On a Premiere it will take at least an hour. I'll start it on my box and let you know when it's done. I assume you're not AT&T? Hammond or Slidell? Only zap2it lists Covington. This is another reason why a GS may be needed. Which city is on your cable bill?

My Premiere XL is freezing/rebooting when other devices reboot and reconnect to my network. The items are plugged into a switch. I just replaced the drive on my Tivo, and I just replaced the switch. This is still happening.

The switch is plugged into a power strip and the strip is plugged into a UPS. Only other two things it could be, other than just a bad Tivo, is a grounding issue on the strip/UPS or a bad ethernet cable to the Tivo (in my opinion).

My Premiere XL is freezing/rebooting when other devices reboot and reconnect to my network. The items are plugged into a switch. I just replaced the drive on my Tivo, and I just replaced the switch. This is still happening.

The switch is plugged into a power strip and the strip is plugged into a UPS. Only other two things it could be, other than just a bad Tivo, is a grounding issue on the strip/UPS or a bad ethernet cable to the Tivo (in my opinion).

Thoughts? Anyone had this happen?

If your TiVo keep rebooting, it's probably a defective HD. You said that you replaced the drive. Is it the proper model, i.e. WD AV-GP? And, has the drive been formatted with a TiVo OS?